Event Driven Management and Opportunistic Computing
April 23, 2008
A while back I wrote a blog entry on Opportunistic Computing, what an organization can do with cloud computing that they wouldn't have done before. I just read an entry on the Smart Enough Systems blog that looks at some similar issues but from the perspective of proactive use of IT to increase the value of the business. He wrote that the characteristics of an organization using Event Driven Management are:
Negative Response Time
Simulation
Best Next Action
Predictive supply chain
Explicit Decisions
Event-based and process-centric
These are also the kind of compute-intensive activities that would be difficult to perform without being able to tap into a pool of relatively unlimited computing resources.
We're both saying that the kinds of computing that will take latency out and increase value are here today, just not widely implemented.
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This MP3 player has a lot of features: 500-song capacity, 20-hour battery, an alarm clock, FM radio, voice recorder, stopwatch and—rare in an MP3 player—a built-in speaker. And it packs all that in a tiny space: check out the paperclip in the photo.
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